La présente loi détermine les règles et les principes fondamentaux relatifs au régime foncier rural en République du Bénin. Elle s’applique au domaine privé rural de l’Etat et des collectivités territoriales ainsi qu’aux terres rurales appartenant aux personnes physiques ou morales de droit privé.

This Law is composed of 13 articles. Article 1 decrees desert lands a private State property. Article 2 deals with the following matters: appropriation of desert lands before the issuance of this Law shall not considered an acquired rights of disposal or decision nor compensation either real rights on these lands; all tribunals, judicial committees and cadastre judges shall abstain from examination, decision, valuation and judgment in complaints and denunciations related to desert lands (Albadeya); and, stopping registration of desert lands.

Article 1 of the above-mentioned Law establishes that the right of passage allows persons, animals and their appurtenances to pass over somebody else’s property. The said right is granted by the Agricultural Office. The text consists of 24 articles divided into 4 Parts as follows: Rights of passage and related facilities (I); Customary right of passage (2); Authorities and proceedings (3); Penalties (4).

This Instruction establishes the structure of state land cadastre that consists of four sections: (a) register of natural persons; (b) register of legal persons; (c) register of the objects of property, including use restrictions such as lease holders, pledgers and preferential terms of land management; and (d) register of documentation.

This Order establishes the requirements for state registration of cadastre district land that shall be integral part of Uniform state land registration system and shall have as its purpose state cadastre registration of land plots within the boundaries of a cadastre district.

This Law has been formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of stabilizing and perfecting the two-level operation system, which is based the responsibility system of contracting by households supplemented by unified management, entitling the peasants to a long-term and guaranteed right to the use of land, protecting the legal rights and interests of the parties of the contracting of rural land, so as to improve the development of agriculture and the rural economy and stabilize the rural areas.

The purpose of this Ordinance is to introduce a title registration system which will bring significant improvement to the system of maintaining land records in Hong Kong and increase the ease and security with which property transactions can be undertaken.This Ordinance applies to land held under a Government lease.The Ordinance shall set out registration procedures and shall provide for the registration of title to new land.In addition, the Ordinance shall set up an indemnity scheme to protect individuals who suffer loss of ownership because of an entry or omission in the title register ob

This Act, consisting of 221 sections divided into 17 Parts and completed by four Schedules, makes provisions with respect to land tenure rights, conveyance of lands, easements, transfer of land, leases, mortgages, and various other matters relative to the registration of titles, use of land rights, transfer of land, etc.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of valuation and re-valuation of land plots by the Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography and legal persons subordinated thereto. Valuation and re-valuation of land plots shall be carried out with the consideration of data contained in state land cadastre, land use planning register, forest register, land servitude and other use restrictions imposed by the national legislation. The results of land valuation and re-valuation shall be recorded in state land cadastre.

This Ministerial Decree establishes that official land act and certificate of provisional land tenancy shall be issued by rural self-government for land plots of agricultural land and by urban administration for land plots of urban land. Legalization and registration of official land acts and certificates of provisional land tenancy shall be carried out by land use planning organizations subordinated to rural self-government and urban administration respectively.

These Regulations, consisting of 12 sections completed by one Schedule dealing with fees, implement the Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989 by providing specifications on public access routes, on travelling stocks, on access to water for travelling stocks, etc.

Implements: Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989. (2014-10-23)
Repeals: Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Regulations 1991. (2003-05-29)

This Joint Circular implements Decision No.